Tobacco Control—Lighter Side: 30th Anniversary Cartoons

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Correspondence to Stan Shatenstein, Deputy News Editor, Tobacco Control, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;shatensteins@sympatico.ca For the past 30 years, Tobacco Control (TC) has been one of few leading scientific journals to include editorial cartoons in its pages. Tobacco Industry and Tobacco Control Smoking and the Movies Long before Jurassic Park IV could be imagined, smoking had made a notable comeback in films like Avatar, where growing tobacco would have been near impossible or an extraordinary waste of precious agricultural land, and in the original Jurassic Park, Samuel L Jackson recalls that director Steven Spielberg gave him ‘the worst-tasting fake cigarettes ever’, knowing that Jackson had quit smoking and did not want to suffer a relapse in real life. Lawsuits In 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upheld British Columbia’s Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, making it possible for the province to continue to seek redress from the tobacco industry.